At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

